Senior Engineering Manager, Edge Delivery
Fastly · Denver, CO; New York City, NY; San Francisco, CA
About this role
**Senior Engineering Manager, Edge Delivery — Fastly** Fastly helps people stay better connected with the things they love. Fastly’s edge cloud platform enables customers to create great digital experiences quickly, securely, and reliably by processing, serving, and securing applications as close to end-users as possible. Fastly is building a more trustworthy Internet—come join us. **Posting Open Date:** 10/27/2026 **Anticipated Posting Close Date:** 11/26/26 *(may close early due to applicant volume)* --- ## What You’ll Do - Manage a distributed team working on Varnish internals and developing new VCL features. - Organize the team into sustainable structures to ensure effective and scalable operations. - Lead with direct management: run regular 1:1s, provide feedback, support career growth, and help retain top technical talent. - Partner with product managers and your director to break roadmaps into clear engineering projects—protecting engineers from unnecessary churn. - Unblock technical issues, refine daily workflows, and maintain high standards for platform uptime and performance. - Participate in incident response: help triage outages, ask the right technical questions, and support the team under pressure. - Keep the team focused on core metrics: cache hit ratio, throughput, memory efficiency, and system stability under high load. ## What We’re Looking For - 5+ years managing infrastructure or systems engineering teams (including experience leading 10+ engineers or setting up tech lead structures). - 10+ years related engineering experience in low-latency systems, networking, CDNs, or C/C++/Rust environments—enough depth to review proposals and prioritize tech debt. - Enthusiasm for developing senior engineers, building balanced team workflows, and measuring success by team output and health. - Experience building collaborative, accountable teams with clear, honest, constructive feedback. - Strong written and verbal communication skills; experience managing distributed teams and translating complex goals into clear tasks. - Practical problem-solving approach and a preference for automation over manual work. ## We’ll Be Super Impressed If You Have Experience With - Varnish or high-throughput HTTP proxy architectures (e.g., Envoy, Nginx, Apache Traffic Server). - HTTP caching mechanics and protocols (headers, stale-while-revalidate, conditional requests, object lifecycles). - Globally distributed edge networks, CDNs, or large-scale traffic management systems. --- ## Work Hours This role requires availability during core business hours, with occasional nights and weekends as needed for on-call coverage. ## Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements Preferred locations: - New York, NY - Denver, CO - San Francisco, CA Fastly uses a largely hybrid model for most roles (strong preference for Hybrid near a local office; remote candidates within the US may be considered). Travel may be required as requested by your manager. ## Salary & Benefits - **Estimated salary range:** $228,280 to $273,936 (starting salary may vary by experience, skills, qualifications, and location) - May be eligible for Fastly equity and discretionary bonus programs - Comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, life/disability/accident insurance, flexible vacation, paid sick leave, 401(k) with company match, and more.
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